Belizean’s after retirement excursions - took 40 years after buying my Jeep CJ7 off the truck.

[Belizean]

First pictures of Utah.

 

[Belizean]

We got to Moab Saturday evening. We were supposed to meet the other Jeep enthusiasts Monday morning. Gert and I met up with Vaughn who I had talked to a few times on the phone and also had texted with several times. He and his family were staying in a cabin and Gert and I were tent camping right next door. So we decided to take a shakedown easy ride on Sunday afternoon. Can’t recall the trail but it was a short drive northwest out of town.

 

[Belizean]

It was mainly a sandy trail and at the end of it a short hike up a rocky area and a pretty cool cave about 300 feet that came out on the backside of the small rocky hill with some pretty nice views. Jeep worked well. Here are a couple of pictures.

 

[coldair]

We got to Moab Saturday evening. We were supposed to meet the other Jeep enthusiasts Monday morning. Gert and I met up with Vaughn who I had talked to a few times on the phone and also had texted with several times. He and his family were staying in a cabin and Gert and I were tent camping right next door. So we decided to take a shakedown easy ride on Sunday afternoon. Can’t recall the trail but it was a short drive northwest out of town.

Tusher tunnel

 

[KRUPP]

Great write up so far. Looong ways from home for ya, especially in a CJ. Awesome adventure though and I’m guessing you wouldn’t trade it.

 

[Belizean]

Great write up so far. Looong ways from home for ya, especially in a CJ. Awesome adventure though and I’m guessing you wouldn’t trade it.

Exactly. Driving out there with Gert was a great experience in an open Jeep and a lot of fun. Got many waves from people and kids. The Moab part was just the icing on the cake. It’s like all the skin cancer things I’ve been dealing with the last 30 years. It was caused by all the fun I had growing up as a kid, but I wouldn’t trade any of that for $10 million now. Life has been a great ride. Sure there have been some bumps on the road.

 

[Belizean]

It was Monday morning and time to meet up with the rest of the Jeep enthusiasts. And pretty much right out of the shoot we head down the road into town 2 - 3 miles to fill up and get breakfast. Problem is my Jeep just dies. I coast into the gas station and into a parking spot. Next thing was pop the hood to see what’s up. The buzzards start circling also handing out cards and offering to help for a fee. Even some of the people we are meeting up with pull into fill up. The MSD box I bought a couple days before is acting up Gert thinks. This was actually the first day it had. We get it going and go across the street and pick up a coil since it seems to be a fire problem.

 

[Belizean]

We finally meet up with the group and head to the trail. Everything seem To be good and we have a great day. The trail was “ Top of the World “. What a great trail. Been hearing about it for decades. The CJ commercials back in the 80s Would show the Jeeps up there. Bucket list trail right there the first day. A couple of pictures below.

 

[Belizean]

What a view.

 

[Belizean]

Never gets old looking at mountains for me.

 

[Belizean]

These mountains here are in a lot of my pictures from different angles and trails.

 

[KRUPP]

Great storytelling!
That little range of mountains is the La Sals, squashed up on the CO-UT border.
Makes for extremely contrasting photos if they’re in the background on your slickrock adventures.

 

[KRUPP]

Hell, those mtns are in my avatar photo!

 

[Belizean]

I noticed that last week.

 

[KRUPP]

Hard to pass it up, right? Pretty frikin cool!
I’m happy you enjoyed your adventure to UT.
Keep going brother…

 

[Belizean]

Strike Ravine was Tuesday’s trail. Jeep was handling the trail very well, but I was still having it die once in a while problem. Intermittent. The Sniper was the flavor of the day. Either pump not coming on or not priming at start up. I was lucky. I never had many problems with my 4 banger or Webber carb for decades. Even my MSD coil and CD box had given me no problems for 8 - 10 years, had worked great.....so to say the least, my diagnosis of electrical was not great. I was lucky I had Gert and Vaughn. It was like I had my own Moab pit crew. Those guys were fantastic. There’s no way I could have had the time of my life without them. I could never thank them enough.

 

[Belizean]

Forgot to mention, I wasn’t the only one having the need for some trail side repair. Vaughn got a chance to try out his welder on Gert’s Jeep. That thing was pretty cool. Not that he really wanted to use it that much, but Vaughn welded on 4 different Jeeps in our group. 3 being newer Jeeps. Guess they just don’t make them like they use to.

 

[Belizean]

That was before we even got on the trail. Here are a couple from Strike Ravine.

 

[Belizean]

Happened to come across the territorial prison also. A little shade but not even bread and water. Probably just rattle snakes and scorpions. Also a group picture and one with the real Jeeps.